- Eisenhower Trophy
The Eisenhower Trophy is a biennial world amateur team
golf championship for men organized by theInternational Golf Federation . It is named forDwight D. Eisenhower , thePresident of the United States when the tournament was first played, who was a keen amateur golfer. Recent tournaments have featured teams from more than sixty countries. The equivalent competition for women is theEspirito Santo Trophy .Results
Players who have featured in a winning Eisenhower Trophy team and later become leading professional golfers include:
Jack Nicklaus ,Bruce Fleisher ,Tom Kite ,Lanny Wadkins ,Ben Crenshaw ,Curtis Strange ,Scott Hoch ,Hal Sutton ,Michael Campbell ,Tiger Woods , Ben Curtis andLuke Donald .Win summary
Up to and including the 2006 event, the Eisenhower Trophy has been won by eight different teams.
* 13 wins: United States
* 4 wins: Great Britain & Ireland
* 3 wins: Australia
* 1 win: Japan, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and the NetherlandsThe "Great Britain & Ireland" team represents the two separate independent countries of the
United Kingdom and theRepublic of Ireland . This was the designation of the team which played the United States in theRyder Cup in the 1973, 1975 and 1977 competitions until its expansion into a European team in 1979, and is also the team which plays the United States in theWalker Cup .External links
* [http://www.internationalgolffederation.org/recordbook/Index.asp More detailed results on the International Golf Federation's site]
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